Case Study: Family Environment of a Child with Infantile Cerebral Palsy

Abstract

The present investigation tries to describe a parents
perception of a child with cerebral palsy in the face of different
daily problems, where the pathologies suffered by the infant, the
treatments received, and experiences lived are narrated. As a
methodology, a qualitative approach was used, with a descriptive
narrative design, using as a documentary instrument an interview
applied to the parents and older sister of the child with cerebral
palsy. As a result, it was possible to show the processes
of family restructuring, the grief in the emotional sense based
on expectations or idealizations on the arrival of a completely
healthy new member. By no compliance, it is said that it is a loss
because those illusions die, and others are created. This is faced
by parents, children or siblings and the social adaptation that
this implies.